Silent Hill 2 came out in 2001, and we have all been miserable ever since. It is a fine misery, the kind you keep close to your heart. Nothing has mat...
Of all the heroes that games have given us, a lighthouse seems quite unlikely. They do a fine job as portals, liable to rocket into the heavens or sin...
Some games just keep bouncing back. Though technically a new release, Ball x Pit is rich in echoes of bygone classics. It isn't, as you may think, a...
A new Alien game has come bursting out. Apparently, it crept onto PlayStation VR2 late last year, and, shame on me, I didn't notice. How fitting: i...
Hinako, a girl in her early teens, leaves home in the midst of an argument with her father. Still in her school uniform, she heads off to meet her fri...
Earthion, a new side-scrolling space shooter, is made by Ancient Corporation – a fitting moniker. The studio is run by Yuzo Koshiro, who made his fa...
The premise of LEGO Voyagers is this. A pair of plastic cubes, one red, the other blue, live on a small island. Two little huts, a tyre swing, and a ...
Hollow Knight: Silksong may be the longest game ever made. Granted, the adventure itself is only around the thirty-hour mark, but we seem to have been...
The premise of Cronos: The New Dawn is that the past is grim, the future is grimmer, and the present is a mix of both. You play a lone woman who vent...
Right, from the top. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater came out in 2004. Its publisher, Konami, re-released it in 2006, with a free-swivelling camera a...
At the start of Ninja Gaiden (1989), two men stood in a field under a full moon. This being a game on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with its bou...
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a new action-RPG from developer Leenzee Games, is not to be confused with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. And neither of these is ...
Ready or Not is an awful title for a very good video game. It sounds like indie horror, one of those YouTube-friendly shockers where faces turn ghouli...
The three-dimensional platformer isn't what it was. It used to sell consoles. It used to forge characters and brand them to the memory. Now it can s...
At the start of I Am Your Beast, a rabid first-person shooter, we follow a bird in flight. We, in this case, embody Antoine Harding, who, despite sou...
Nightdive Studios has dipped back into the past again, surfacing this time with System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. The title is slightly out,...
Tron: Catalyst is the latest game to spring from the movie Tron, which came out in 1982. If you count, among that film's charms, the sight of Jeff ...
V Rising stands out as a rich vampire role-playing game, and proves that the ARPG genre's busywork is much easier to swallow when wrapped in a good fantasy.
Elden Ring Nightreign is being billed as a standalone follow-up to Elden Ring, which is like saying that Wallace stands alone from Gromit. Both are th...
The new game from developer MercurySteam is Blades of Fire, which is not a good name. Blades of Fire. It sounds like a documentary about patriotic i...